Jinan Overview

Jinan is the large province of coastal economy of the east of China--The provincial capital of Shandong, is the political, economic and cultural centre of the whole province. Jinan city lie in north latitude 36'40'', east longitude 117 00', belong to temperate zone continental monsoon climate district, make a clear distinction between the four seasons, the sunshine is abundant, the average temperature of the whole year is 13.6 ?, it is the coldest in January, the temperature on average- 1.9 ?, with most high temperatures in July, the temperature on average is 27 ?. Annual average rainfall is 614 millimetres. Adjoin Mount Tai in the south, step the Yellow River in the north , is located in handing over of middle and southern in Shandong Province low mountains and hills and northwest in Shandong Province alluvial plain to take, the south of the terrain is high in the north The topography can be divided into three bringing: It is face to Yellow area of north, middle part pediment plain bring, southern hills mountain area bring. The river have the Yellow River, Xiaoqing River two major river systems mainly in Jinan. The lake has Daming Lake, Baiyun Lake ,etc.. Jinan is vice provincial city and open coastal city that the country sanctions now, have jurisdiction over the Lixia, Shizhong, Huaiyin, Tianqiao, Licheng, Changqing 6 districts, Pingyin, Jiyang, Shanghe 3 county and Zhangqiu city, set up 54 subdistrict offices, 65 towns, 27 townships together, 487 residents committees, 4657 administrative villages. The whole area in the whole city is 8177 sq. km., the area of urban area is 3257 sq. km.. Reside at 5,690,000 of total population, its Central Africa agricultural population 2,222,000 permanently. Jinan is a picturesque place, springs are numerous, praised as "Spring City". The city tree of Jinan is willow, the city flower is a lotus.